Today I was not able to save anymore images in PainShop Pro as jpg (png will work). PainShop Pro will simply freeze if I try to do this. The issue: a clipboard monitor called PureText was conflicting with PainShop Pro. Closing the program solved the issue. I have no clue why the programmers of PainShop […]
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I stepped last week in a multiple-bug situation with EurekaLog for Delphi. I again wasted MORE than a day with this buggy “exception tracer tool”. My DRP file is like this: PROGRAM MyProgram; uses {$ifdef win32}fastmm4,{$endif} EurekaLog_units_come_here This worked fine until I compiled the program to 64 bits. On 64 bit, EurekaLog refused
Yet another EurekaLog bug. How many until now? Read More »
Email sender settings in EurekaLog v7 SMTP Server [1] Simple MAPI MAPI Shell (MailTo) SMTP client [3] Can attach the ELP file Yes Yes [2] Yes [2] No Yes See sender’s email No [4] Yes Yes Yes No Email client software* Not required Required Required Required Not required Chance of success Highest chance among
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In the new road map, Embarcadero finally decided to fix SOME bugs in Delphi. It seems good news but hold your horses: 1. They not always keep their promise related to the road map. 2. There are not so many bugs 3. They won’t do all the fixes at once, but until 2018 4. Until
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There used to be three programs that really made our computer miserable. They were slow, bloated, intrusive and a lot of security holes opened with them when you installed. Java – Probably Java is the nastiest of all Until few years ago you could not browse some web sites because some derailed ‘web developers’ decided
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After spending 2 full hours I managed to find the culprit for an IDE crash (access violation in VCL210). The cause was …drum roll please… CnPack! There was a palette in IDE’s main tool bar called MSDN Help. However, when I right click to configure the toolbar, the palette was not listed there to show
Delphi XE7 IDE crash due to CnPAck MSDN Help Integrated Read More »
Today I tried to open an old project. While loading the main DFM form I got a “No mapping for the Unicode character exists in the target multi-byte code page” error. After wasting some time I figured out what caused it: the form had a custom control that had a property like this: HeaderCellSpacing =
I keep getting this error at Delphi shut down: Application Error – Exception EAccessViolation in module rtl210.bpl at 00016A9C. Access violation at address 50066A9C in module ‘rtl210.bpl’. Read of address 06152AF8. Solution 1: The problem is fixed by restoring this registry key to its original state: [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareEmbarcaderoBDS15.0Known IDE Packages] Here is the pristine value for
Delphi bug: Exception EAccessViolation in module rtl210.bpl at 00016A9C [SOLVED] Read More »
I keep getting an “Access violation at address 1204F872 in module ‘bindcomp210.bpl’. Read of address 1423C764” message during Delphi startup. After poking around I have found the solution: delete the “Project” and/or “SaveFileDirectory” keys in [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareEmbarcaderoBDS15.0Session]
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Starting this year Embarcadero has a new plan to milk money from its customers. With the new ‘Update Subscription’ plan, Embarcadero wants to charge 30% from original purchase price, each year, each customer that wants access to product bug fixes (that were not supposed to be there anyway). Eve more, there is no warranty that
Delphi developers are now charged for bug fixes [via Update Subscription] Read More »
How to solve the “Cannot load a form that has itself as ancestor” error in Delphi This is how a new/empty project should look like: uses Forms, Unit1 in ‘Unit1.pas’ {Form1}; And this how your project probably looks like: uses Forms, Unit1 in ‘Unit1.pas’ {Form}; I spent on hour to find the well hidden culprit.
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Where Your Free HDD Space Went on a Toshiba Qosmio Laptop After purchasing my Toshiba Qosmio laptop, I noticed that only about 450GB of the stated 500GB of storage was available. A few hours after unboxing it, I discovered two large hidden partitions had been created by Toshiba. The first one is about 1GB, which
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Delphi 2007 – Same Old Stuff Under a New Hat? We all love Delphi. It’s smart, easy to understand, fast, and user-friendly. But what truly makes Delphi so appealing? Is it the IDE, or is it the language itself? Every time Borland released a new version, we endured a painful cycle of learning and adaptation.
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Fixing Folder Permissions After Upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 Under Windows XP, I never had to worry about file or folder permissions—they just worked. However, after upgrading to Windows 7, I noticed that some programs no longer had proper ‘read’ or ‘write’ access to their own folders. This wasn’t limited to system folders
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